YouTube Cards Feature

The recent YouTube cards feature is a way for you to engage your viewers while they watch your video. Today I am introducing you to these Interactive Cards, giving you some effective ways to use them and showing you how to add the Associated website YouTube card. Here’s how they work:

YouTube card teaser text appears at a predetermined time in your video along with an icon. When the teaser text disappears after few seconds the icon continues to be shown in the upper right. A viewer can click the icon at any time.

You have up to 5 cards in video, which would appear with a scroll bar once the icon is clicked so viewers can browse all cards in your video.

You can also view the analytics for cards under Engagement Reports in YouTube Analytics. I highly recommend that you check your YouTube Cards analytics weekly to see which cards are working best for you.

Cards are the next evolution of annotations on YouTube – they will eventually replace them. YouTube Annotations do not work on mobile and other devices but YouTube Cards do.

If you are doing YouTube video marketing, these interactive cards are a must!

Glad you like it! YouTube cards are a powerful method to get leads for your business. You can easily drive traffic to your website or other videos via the interactive cards. I’ve used them for a few months now and they do a great job!

Hey Linda!
Always appreciate your visits here.
Let me know when you get started with videos…they are so much fun!
The video cards are super easy and add so much value to the video itself.
Do you have a camera on your mobile phone? Usually the smart phone camera take the best videos.
For the laptop, I used the Logictech C920 which worked great!
Have a great week as well!
Lisa